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To work as a joke at that dinner, joining us, a former speechwriter for president obama. he's now head writer for funnier guys, also joining us, a historian of new york politics, the author of "machine made", david, tell us what the writing pressure is going into this dinner. a lot of things can go wrong here. >> yeah, i mean, this is a very strange ritual. and it comes at a really intense time in a campaign, so both sides have been at each other's throats for weeks, and now suddenly they have to step back and kind of be funny for an eveninge evenin evening and in the most pleasant of campaign...

Guys, also joining us, a historian of new york politics, the author of "machine made", david, tell us what the writing pressure is going into this dinner. a lot of things can go wrong here. >> yeah, i mean, this is a very strange ritual. and it comes at a really intense time in a campaign, so both sides have been at each other's throats for weeks, and now suddenly they have to step back and kind of be funny for an evening and in the most pleasant of campaigns it can be an awkward moment, and this is not the most pleasant of campaigns. >> even an incumbent president is on an equal footing with ...

Has made it clear his client wants to cut a deal. if he has immunity from the relevant entities he'll talk. that's what wildstein's lawyer is saying. there are a the lot of balls in the air here. a lot we still don't know. a lot that is still to play out. so we figure we'd look at the possibility that christie is able to emerge from all of this with the political viability intact. what would have to happen for that to happen? what would have to be true? what do you need to believe right now if you believe that whatever further revelations there are in the scandal christie will make it out aliv...

>> in the spotlight tonight, putin's political machine. on rueters.com, this group of burly motorcyclists who see themselves as road warriors, fighting for the greater glory of mother russia. they're known as the night wolves and putin himself has ridden with them on that icon of american wanderlust, a harley davidson, even as russia was preparing to send troops to crimea to claim the peninsula from ukraine's new government. the night wolves announced that they would ride to the troubled region to whip up support for their powerful brother and harley devotee. joining me now is the author of "m...